Contentment Quotes

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What you have made me see,' answered the Lady, 'is as plain as the sky, but I never saw it before. Yet is has happened every day. One goes into the forest to pick food and already the thought of one fruit rather than another has grown up in one’s mind. Then, may it be, one finds a different fruit and not the fruit one thought of. One joy was expected and another is given. But this I had never noticed before–that the very moment of the finding there is in the mind a kind of thrusting back, or setting aside. The picture of the fruit you have not found is still, for a moment, before you. And if you wished–if it were possible to wish–you could keep it there. You could send your soul after the good you had expected, instead of turning it to the good you had got. You could refuse the real good; you could make the real fruit taste insipid by thinking of the other.

~ C.s. Lewis

Never envy others. Be happy and love your work.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The beauty of the soul enfold in spiritual-life.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you meet joyEven in that momentary experience, This ephemeral emotion unravelsAll those colors of contentmentWhich sparkle from within

~ Balroop Singh

Many people, who should have been rejoicing for what they've achieved, are rather regretting just because of one reason; they looked at what someone else was doing. Comparison eliminates contentment and then kills inner joy!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

...there is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent...

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

I have found contentment and joy in being exactly where God wants me to be, and that is what makes me happy.

~ Megan Carson

The road to happiness starts with a deep breath and an awareness of the many blessings tied to that single breath.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

While many of us admire nice things, materialism and suffering may share a connection. When we place a great deal of our happiness in material things, we run the great risk of losing our happiness when our material things become lost, old, or damaged. Toys break. Cars get dents. Clothes get ripped. Jewels get lost or stolen. Riches come and go.If we collect moments rather than things, these are ours to keep. If we redefine wealth by the amount of love and kindness we afford ourselves to give to others, we can transform our lives.

~ Ann Brasco

There are still blue skies and rainbows and days bathed in sunlight. There are colorful shade trees filled with sweet bird songs. And there are wishing stars in the heavens as well as angels in God's service. So lift up your eyes. Refuse to be unhappy.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.

~ Tim Fargo

She did not find these riches (of fulfillment). They were a gift from God.

~ Lyle Wesley Dorsett

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

~ Plato

Those who think life is a competition become corrupt.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

What men classify as living is often but the discontentment of making oneself itch just to enjoy the scratch.

~ Criss Jami

What we decide does not mean will always happen, so be content with what you are

~ Sadashivan Nair

We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch Christian cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right worldview talking points. And we're content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. That's precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of groanings too deep for words (Rom 8:26). We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are.

~ Russell D. Moore

I admire a contented mind. I revere enjoyment of the simple things. I can imagine that contentment has a high degree of truth. But the human tendency is to take good as normal, and one's natural right, and so no cause for satisfaction and pleasure. This is accompanied by the habit of regarding bad as abnormal and a personal outrage.

~ Florida Scott-Maxwell

I don’t need to go to heaven or hell. I have been both places and always wanted more. I will settle for somewhere in between, so eternity never becomes dull and every miracle is something I never take for granted.

~ Shannon L. Alder

She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.

~ Thomas Hardy

Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

Believe be and strong enough in virtues like character, faithfulness, hard work, dignity of labor, diligence, excellence, perseverance, truth, responsibility, delayed gratification, contentment, trust, integrity and stop looking for miracles.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I know that some nightin some bedroomsoonmy fingers willriftthroughsoft cleanhairsongs such as no radioplaysall sadness, grinninginto flow.

~ Charles Bukowski

I don’t want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn’t quite pleasing.

~ Dominic Riccitello

Better to be happy with the cod fish in your plate now, than to linger for the taste of a tuna that is still swimming in the sea.

~ Dennis E. Adonis

God says only one thing if you want to have attachment towards worldly life; go ahead and get attached to it; or else, get attached to Me. If you get attached to Me, you will get permanent happiness and if you get attached to the worldly life, you will not find contentment!

~ Dada Bhagwan

..there are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

~ José Saramago

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

~ Shannon L. Alder

It is not simply that God has arbitrarily made us such that He is our only good. Rather God is the only good of all creatures: and by necessity, each must find its good in that kind and degree of fruition of God which is proper to its nature. The kind and degree may vary with the creature's nature: but that there ever could be any other good, is an atheistic dream. George Macdonald, in a passage I cannot now find, represents God as saying to men, 'You must be strong with my strength and blessed with my blessedness, for I have no other to give you.' That is the conclusion of the whole matter. God gives what He has, not what He has not: He gives the happiness that there is, not the happiness that is not. To be God - to be like God and to share His goodness in creaturely response - to be miserable - these are the only three alternatives. If we will not learn to eat the only food that the universe grows - that only food that any possible universe ever can grow - then we must starve eternally.

~ C.s. Lewis

...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

~ Donna Tartt

We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.

~ Aleksandra Layland

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

~ W.p. Kinsella

Happy the man, whose wish and careA few paternal acres bound,Content to breathe his native airIn his own ground.

~ Alexander Pope

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

~ Richard Paul Evans

That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a man who found a magic cup and learned that if he wept into the cup, his tears turned into pearls. But even though he had always been poor, he was a happy man and rarely shed a tear. So he found ways to make himself sad so that his tears could make him rich. As the pearls piled up, so did his greed grow. The story ended with the man sitting on a mountain of pearls, knife in hand, weeping helplessly into the cup with his beloved wife's slain body in his arms.

~ Khaled Hosseini

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

~ Pablo Picasso

Real poverty is when hunger pangs force from my mind all thoughts but those of food. Real poverty is when the children are not dressed warmly enough for winter. Real poverty is when the housing we can afford is not adequate to the needs of our families. On the other hand, real poverty is - equally - when I have eaten so much that I am uncomfortable, and again, my thoughts center on food. Or when I have so many clothes that I have to spend a lot of mental energy making choices among them or finding ways to store them. Or when, regardless of my living conditions, I am discontent and brooding about how to have more. Real poverty is when material things are uppermost and pressing - whether because we have too few or too many of them. It is poverty, because the human mind and spirit are made for higher things, worthier pursuits.

~ Maxine Hancock

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

~ Flannery O'connor